Peteris Stucka

Peteris Stucka (26 July 1865-25 January 1932) was the head of the Latvian SSR from 17 December 1918 to 13 January 1920 under the Soviet Union during the Latvian War of Independence.

Biography
Peteris Stucka was born on 26 July 1865 in Koknese parish, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. Stucka edited Latvian and Russian socialist and communist periodicals and became a member of Vladimir Lenin's inner circle in the Bolshevik Party. He believed that global communism was more important than cultural identity, and in 1918 he was appointed leader of the Bolshevik-ruled Latvian SSR, fighting against the pro-independence armies of Latvia. He broke his promise to give land to certain people, instead supporting collective farms; in 1920, the Latvian SSR was defeated by the newly-independent Latvian state, and Stucka died in the Soviet Union in 1932.